I take most of these articles with a grain of salt. The Washington Post has not (lately, at least) been a source of hard hitting analysis. Additionally, this

I take most of these articles with a grain of salt. The Washington Post has not (lately, at least) been a source of hard hitting analysis. Additionally, this study has not been peer reviewed, but they certainly treat it as though it has. Looking at the charts and the analysis - one concern raised is that workers starting out in 2010 had lower real wages than their counterparts from 1969. A really simple explanation might be that in 2010 we were still in the deepest part of the biggest recession in recent history. What do you think that would do to starting wages? I know there is a narrative they are trying to tell, but in the past 12-24 months they are so obviously biased I simply don't believe anything they write anymore. Edit: I might add that I worry very much about the decline of the middle class. The problem is I don't trust any news source to tell me objective truths, and the more I dig for this information the more the black and white rhetoric doesn't seem to fit.